AIM: To investigate the effect of anterior uveitis in Behçet's disease(BD)on neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio(NLR).

METHODS:Retrospective research. The patients who were admitted to Kayseri Training and Research Hospital between 2004-2013 and fulfilled the BD criteria are accepted in the study. The records of 735 patients with BD were screened and 135 of them were taken to the study. Sixty-eight of them had anterior uveitis, the rest(n=67)did not have any ophthalmological pathology. The patients' total blood counts were taken at the same visit that anterior uveitis was noted. Then the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio were calculated.

RESULTS:In the anterior uveitis group the mean NLR was 2.55±0.96. In the ophthalmologically normal group it was 1.67±0.50. NLR was determined higher in the anterior uveitis group(P<0.05).

CONCLUSION: The NLR is found higher in the Behçet's disease with anterior uveitis patients when compared with the ophthalmologically normal patients.